Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-06-04
DAKOTA.

Deadwood and Sundance are to be connect
ed by telephone.
A camp-meeting is soon to be held at st.
Lawrence Park Grove.
Lead City is realizing on a real estate boom,
the first joyful evidence Of prosperity exper-
fenced in years.
Rapid City has raised a bonus Of $15, 900 to
start work on the Rapid City, Wyoming and
Western survey.
Thirty-two thousand acres OF wheat have
been sown on Dalrymple's little ranch in the
Red River Valley.
The reported discovery Of petroleum In the
Turtle mountains is likely to cause a STAN
pede In that direction.
Fargo has a new paper, the Journal, edited
and published by D. l.. Fry, a newspaper man
Of experience and ability. The paper is pc
~litically independent.
Fargo's new hotel will be built Of bric', is
TO be four stories high and supplied with an
elevator and all modern conveniences. The
cost is estimated at 800, 900.
Bids were opened by the board of county
commissioners at Redteld on Wednesday for
building a new court house. George H..
Pew being the owest bidder was awarded the
contract for 10000.
There is q rumor in circulation at Rapi .
City TO the effect that James Wilson, jr, ot
the Barney Peak Tin company, has negot-
ated So, 000, 900 sn which to operate the tin
mines.
There are some cases OF scarlet fever st
Yankton, and one man was arrested and fpld
for not reporting its existence, accordinc 70
law, when he learned the fact Of the dif, ase
being in the city,
In a freight car loaded with lumber arriv-
ing in Sioux Falls Tuesday was found the
body OF a tramp who had evidently tried to
steal a ride, and had been crushed to death by
the lumber sliding against him and killing
him.
Saturdays rain has been heard from all
over Dakota, and It was heaviest where it was
most needed, In the Red river valley, and
lightest where it was not particularly needed,
in the extreme southern portion OF the terri
tory.
Ell Spotted Bear, a full-blosdcd Sioux
Indian, has been drawn as a juror for the
next term Of the Hughes county district court.
1t is said he cannot understand or speak the
English language. The judge will probably
excuse him.
The Bismarck town council had a puritanic
attsck last Sunday, and In CO. sequence the
Sunday laws were vigorously enforced. 1t
seemed as II every person in the city engaged
In business was bent on making the law as
obnoxious as possible.
A Journal special says John Doyle, section
boss on the Northwestern railway, living at
Norbet, was waylaid by his brother-in.lar,
Martin Furlong, on Monday, and now lie is in
Furlong's arrest. An ola family quarrel was
the cause.
Thomas Shisten, n man Of about sixty years,
lived alone IN a cabin not far from Deadwood.
For several weeks bis ncighbors had not seen
him, and a few days ago two young men Who
called at the cabin found the corpse OF the
old man inside IN an advanced stage of de-
composition.
The town site of Mound City, Campbell
county, has been transferred to the Chicago
and Northwestern company. The latter agree
to have the road finished and trains running
by JatuoIy /, an VIII also build north Of
Getty sturg, Potter county, as soon as tie line
is extended from Faulkton to that point.
A Sioux Falls apecial says the people hold
Ing policies in the OLD Fargo Insurance com
pany held a meeting TO investigate tie con-
dition OF the company. 1t is alleged he
company has assets of s55 to pay liabilities of
1875, coo. The local officers at Sioux Falls
claim that Secretary Lowell, of Chicago, had
made away with 100000 belonging u the
company.
A company has been formed in Rapid City
to develop the gypsum beos In that vicinity.
The company has secured some forty acres or
more Of the gypsum beds and will operate on
an extensive scale when they commence. The
products will be disposed of in eastern mar.
kets. Among the gentlemen interested are
John r. Brennan, A.. j.. Simmons, K. C. Lake,
Thomas Sweeney and X. G. Morehousc.
A year ago in September, the wife Of a
merchant of Mitchell, died and was buried In
the cemetery near town, having first been
embalmed. Monday the remains were disin-
tered for shipment to New York state for
final burial. Six men attempted to raise the
coffin in vain, and 1t took four more to get it
from the grave. an examination was made,
when II was found that the remains had petri-
fled, retaining not only the natural color but
the features had the solid appearance of mar
bic, and were unchanged.
An Aberdeen special OF the 22d says:
Thomas Plaisted, clerk of the court of Mar
shall county, while ca route from Huron, |
Oak, to Aberdeen this afternoon, was taken
suddenly i'll on the train, taken from the cars
here insepsible, and Is now at the city hospi-
tai raving mad, his first words being to the
fleet that some one at Huron had poisoned
him. 1t seems parties have been trying to
his position AS clerk at Brlton. Doctors
Think that congestion Of the brain will follow
and that he cannot live. He speaks %continu-
ally Of hts uncle, Gov. PIaisted, OF Maine,
and other prominent eastern men. He was
once a member OF the Legislature OF Maine.
The cause OF his attack is still a mystery.
Watertown special, May t25: Information
received from from sub-coptractors and con-
tractors on the Chicago, Milwaukee and st. |
Paul and the Aberdeen, Bismarck and North
extensions In Dakota are leaving the